# Yappidy yap yappidy yap. And God bless America **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 28, 2005, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yappidy-yap-yappidy-yap-and-god-bless-america/301591 "2005-04-28T19:26:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yappidy-yap-yappidy-yap-and-god-bless-america/301591/1 "2005-04-28T19:26:49Z")
Son of a bitch. Damn. Just plain damn. > **[Survivor: Palau- 4/28](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=314184)** > > I am excited about another week, but a little nervous about when the show will air. It appears the POTUS is asking for time at 8:30 EST for a Social Security Press Conference. I’m all for accountability in democracy, but let’s do it on Monday... Eight-thirty? Eight-fucking-thirty? The last half of Survivor and the first half of the Apprentice? You half-witted bird-brain. Talk about disconnect. Here we are all set to enjoy the best evening of prime time all week, our DVRs all set, our appetites whetted, and our fingertips over our keys ready to share our reviews. And you want to give a stupid speech about stupid social stupid security. I’m just fucking pissed off as I envision your smirky ass face with your beady eyes and batting eyelids. You squint and struggle to read the teleprompter, fuck up at least four common words, and all the while say shit about squat. My fellow Americans. Yappidy yap. Something must be done. Social security must be saved. Yadda yadda. I have a wet dream for America. Blah blah blah blah blah. It will mean nothing. It will do nothing. It will accomplish nothing. It will be a complete waste of everyone’s time. AND THE WHOLE FUCKING WHILE, YOUR FUCKING CLUELESS SMIRKY ASS FACE WON’T KNOW THAT YOU’RE STEPPING ON PEOPLE WHO JUST WANT TO ENJOY A FUCKING EVENING OF FUCKING ENTERTAINMENT. **YOU FUCKING WHORE. YOU FUCKING IGNORANT BASTARD. ISN’T IT ENOUGH THAT YOU TRAMPLE ON OUR LIBERTIES? MUST YOU TORTURE US AS WELL?** :mad: :mad: :mad: **NOW WE HAVE TO DVR THE WHOLE FUCKING NIGHT FROM 8:00 TO 2:00 AND WE STILL MIGHT MISS OUR FUCKING SHOWS.** And that’s gonna fuck up Project Greenlight and the Daily Show. Dammit. You fucking fuck. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yappidy-yap-yappidy-yap-and-god-bless-america/301591/2 "2005-04-28T19:30:23Z")
It’s just a TV show. Get over it. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yappidy-yap-yappidy-yap-and-god-bless-america/301591/3 "2005-04-28T19:32:00Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > It’s just a TV show. > > Get over it. Yeah, but it’s pre-empting **better** shows, dammit! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yappidy-yap-yappidy-yap-and-god-bless-america/301591/4 "2005-04-28T19:33:43Z")
> [@Ferret Herder](#): > > Yeah, but it’s pre-empting **better** shows, dammit! yuck-yuck. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yappidy-yap-yappidy-yap-and-god-bless-america/301591/5 "2005-04-28T19:34:14Z")
Okay, the Apprentice, maaaaaybe. But this is the best Survivor series since the first one. No sirree, I’ll not get over it. Fuck him. If aliens were landing or something, okay. But social fucking security? It’s the same shit they’ve squabbled about for as long as I can remember, and I’m an old man. It’s just partisan attention whoring. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yappidy-yap-yappidy-yap-and-god-bless-america/301591/6 "2005-04-28T19:35:48Z")
Fuck both Survivor and Apprentice. It’s preempting CSI, Goddamnit. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yappidy-yap-yappidy-yap-and-god-bless-america/301591/7 "2005-04-28T19:36:29Z")
All I know is he better not fuck with the Nets-Heat game. It’s on TNT though so I think I’m safe. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yappidy-yap-yappidy-yap-and-god-bless-america/301591/8 "2005-04-28T19:37:17Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > Okay, the Apprentice, maaaaaybe. But this is the best Survivor series since the first one. No sirree, I’ll not get over it. Fuck him. If aliens were landing or something, okay. But social fucking security? It’s the same shit they’ve squabbled about for as long as I can remember, and I’m an old man. _It’s just partisan attention whoring._ By default, since Bush isn’t your guy. 😉 But seriously - it’s just a TV show. Hell, it’s just a _game_ show. Why get bothered? ---
**Author:** ![fushj00mang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@fushj00mang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fushj00mang)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yappidy-yap-yappidy-yap-and-god-bless-america/301591/9 "2005-04-28T19:40:55Z")
> [@liberal](#): > > ISN’T IT ENOUGH THAT YOU TRAMPLE ON OUR LIBERTIES? MUST YOU TORTURE US AS WELL? I’m just imagining a room full of random people having the President pumped into there eyes, a la “A Clockwork Orange.” Funniest shit in years… ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yappidy-yap-yappidy-yap-and-god-bless-america/301591/10 "2005-04-28T19:41:54Z")
Five bucks says he insisted on 8:30 so he wouldn’t miss _Joey_. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yappidy-yap-yappidy-yap-and-god-bless-america/301591/11 "2005-04-28T19:43:50Z")
It’s still a TV show I would rather watch than having to endure this inarticulate monkey boy selling his fucking social security pyramid scam to retards in primetime. This is not a SOTU address or anything. It’s not important. It’s not like he has anything to tell America. It’s purely a self-serving political speech. It shows the arrogance of these fucks that they feel entitled to the attention of the networks at the drop of a hat. I would submit that _Survivor_ and the _The Apprentice_, trifles that they may be, are still more important and more “real” than anything the presidential primate is going hoot at us about social security. Fuck him. If he wants to do an infomercial for shell schemes he can fucking well pay for them on Lifetime. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yappidy-yap-yappidy-yap-and-god-bless-america/301591/12 "2005-04-28T19:43:57Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > By default, since Bush isn’t your guy. 😉 > > But seriously - it’s just a TV show. Hell, it’s just a _game_ show. Why get bothered? Because it’s for a stupid speech, the content of which will be absolutely ZERO, the consequence of which will be absolutely NOTHING, the point of which is absolutely MISSING. You interrupt prime time because war has broken out. You interrupt prime time because aliens have landed. You interrupt prime time because the Republic is about to fail. You do not interrupt prime time to rehash fifty-year-old bullshit about funny-money trusts that don’t exist and make it sound like you have a plan that will succeed where the forty thousand plans before it failed. Meanwhile, these are important nights for Survivor and Apprentice. I defended the guy when he sat in the school room for five minutes. I defended him when he said nookyoolar. But this is just fucked up. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yappidy-yap-yappidy-yap-and-god-bless-america/301591/13 "2005-04-28T19:47:13Z")
Plus what Dio said. Let him buy an infomercial like anyone else. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yappidy-yap-yappidy-yap-and-god-bless-america/301591/14 "2005-04-28T19:47:29Z")
For what it’s worth, I’d be saying the same about any President. Don’t fucking preempt CSI! ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yappidy-yap-yappidy-yap-and-god-bless-america/301591/15 "2005-04-28T19:52:02Z")
I hope this will help some others, the CSI fans included. I just called our CBS and NBC affiliate program directors. The CBS guy said their current plan is to show the first half of Survivor, then the stupid fucking speech, then the rest of the evening delayed. The NBC guy said their current plan is to ignore the stupid fucking speech altogether. God bless NBC. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yappidy-yap-yappidy-yap-and-god-bless-america/301591/16 "2005-04-28T20:01:50Z")
I’m so thrilled your taking this crusade of idiocy to the very people who thrill at your slavish devotion to their advertis, er, TV shows. It warms a heart proud to see such a principled stand! ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yappidy-yap-yappidy-yap-and-god-bless-america/301591/17 "2005-04-28T20:08:01Z")
> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#): > > If he wants to do an infomercial for shell schemes he can fucking well pay for them on Lifetime. Then he’d be played by Tim Daly, and Laura (as played by Andie MacDowell) would be having an affair with Tom Delay (as played by Gary Cole). ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yappidy-yap-yappidy-yap-and-god-bless-america/301591/18 "2005-04-28T20:10:19Z")
Stuff like this makes me glad I don’t watch TV regularly any more. I avoid both the inane reality-TV shows _and_ the inane excuse for a “president”… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yappidy-yap-yappidy-yap-and-god-bless-america/301591/19 "2005-04-28T20:12:40Z")
If NBC really does ignore the speech they will rise greatly in my esteem. Is anyone surprised that Fox was the first to announce it’s snivelling obesience to Bush? ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yappidy-yap-yappidy-yap-and-god-bless-america/301591/20 "2005-04-28T20:13:19Z")
I’ll be at the Yankee game. I’m safe, as long as I remember to take a break right before GBA during the 7th inning stretch. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yappidy-yap-yappidy-yap-and-god-bless-america/301591.md?page=2)